Bill, with your comments about the Reverend Martin Luther King, I'm reminded of the moral clarity that King, as a church leader, gave to the civil rights movement. At the same time, the Berrigan brothers, two Catholic priests, established a similar moral clarity when they commenced the antiwar movement of the sixties.
Bill, with your comments about the Reverend Martin Luther King, I'm reminded of the moral clarity that King, as a church leader, gave to the civil rights movement. At the same time, the Berrigan brothers, two Catholic priests, established a similar moral clarity when they commenced the antiwar movement of the sixties.
Pope Francis is filling some of that spiritual gravitas for climate change and the environment with his encyclical Laudato Si, and as you mentioned, he plans a follow-up to the document in about a month.
Yet the U.S., the world, needs more than the Pope to spiritually combat climate change. Is there someone--a priest, a minister, some religious leader--to inspire others to action as Martin Luther King and the Berrigans did in the sixties?
the weakening of religious life has reduced their number, but the seminaries--Christian, Jewish, Muslim--are still full of people with lots of passion. it's harder for them to get an audience now, but groups like GreenFaith are doing yeoman work.
Bill, with your comments about the Reverend Martin Luther King, I'm reminded of the moral clarity that King, as a church leader, gave to the civil rights movement. At the same time, the Berrigan brothers, two Catholic priests, established a similar moral clarity when they commenced the antiwar movement of the sixties.
Pope Francis is filling some of that spiritual gravitas for climate change and the environment with his encyclical Laudato Si, and as you mentioned, he plans a follow-up to the document in about a month.
Yet the U.S., the world, needs more than the Pope to spiritually combat climate change. Is there someone--a priest, a minister, some religious leader--to inspire others to action as Martin Luther King and the Berrigans did in the sixties?
the weakening of religious life has reduced their number, but the seminaries--Christian, Jewish, Muslim--are still full of people with lots of passion. it's harder for them to get an audience now, but groups like GreenFaith are doing yeoman work.